1. Federal Buildings Committee
March 26, 2015

2. Agenda
Special Guest: George Szwarcman, Associate Executive Director, VA Office of Facilities Acquisition
Eleni Reed, Chief Green Officer, GSA PBS
Executive Order: Planning for Sustainability in the Next Decade
Transactional Data Proposed Rule
FSSI Buildings Maintenance & Operations
Upcoming Events

3. Department of Veterans Affairs VA Office of Construction & Facilities Management George L. Szwarcman, Esq. Associate Executive Director, Facilities Acquisitions March 2015

4. VA Services for Veterans
Health Care (FY14)
9.11 Million Enrollees
103 Million Outpatient Visits
714,000 Inpatient Admissions
Benefits (FY14)
3.95 Million Veterans received Disability Compensation
1.09 Million Veterans received Education Support
2.14 Million Active VA Home Loan Participants
Memorial Benefit (FY14)
125,000 Internments in National Cemeteries
3.4 Million Graves Maintained
354,943 Headstones Provided for Veterans in Private Cemeteries

5. VA Facilities Inventory
6,100 Buildings
1,945 Leases
151,620,874 SF
37, Land acres
Average age approaching 60 years

6. CFM Overview Vision: Mission:
Be the trusted leaders in delivering healthcare and other facilities for our Nation’s Veterans.
Mission:
Advance VA’s mission in support of our Nation’s Veterans by planning, designing, constructing and acquiring major facilities, and setting design and construction standards.

7. CFM Background Responsible for:
Planning, designing, and constructing all major construction projects greater than $10 million.
Acquiring real property for use by VA elements through the purchase of land and buildings, as well as lease acquisitions.

8. CFM Background Responsible for:
Managing facility sustainability, seismic corrections, physical security, and historic preservation of VA’s facilities.
Delivering to Veterans, high quality buildings, additions, large scale renovations, and structural enhancements.

9. CFM Regional Offices

10. MyVA Regional Map

11. Major Program Summary Major Construction Program:
Consists of projects over $10 million.
(38 U.S. Code §8104)
Projects planned and developed for VHA, NCA, VBA or Staff Offices.
Projects are individually appropriated by Congress.
Major medical facility projects and leases require authorization by Congress.

12. Major Program Summary Architect-Engineer Services:
Professional services of an architectural and engineering nature performed by contract.
CFM contracts for the following services:
Pre-Design
Schematic Design
Design Development
Construction Documents

13. Major Program Summary Leasing Program:
Authority delegated by GSA to execute leases.
Major leases consist of projects over $1 million in annual unserviced rent and must be authorized by Congress. (38 U.S. Code §8104)
CFM Real Property Service manages the acquisition of major leases.
Smaller leases are managed at the local/regional level.
Leases for medically related space are funded from the medical facilities appropriation.

14. Major Program Summary
Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contracts:
Architect Engineer
Leasing Broker / Consultant
Environmental

15. Other VA Construction Programs
Minor Construction:
Projects with a cost less than $10 million
Appropriation by Congress not project specific
Designed by an Architectural/Engineering Firm and constructed by a general contractor
Typically administered at each medical center, cemetery or VBA office building

16. Other VA Construction Programs
Non-Recurring Maintenance (NRM):
Primarily address correcting facility deficiencies and renovating existing space including the repair or replacement of existing building systems
Typically administered at each medical center or cemetery
NRM projects are funded through the VHA’s medical facilities account or NCA’s operations and maintenance account
Designed by an Architectural/Engineering Firm and constructed by a general contractor
Green Management Program:
Under control of the Office of Asset and Enterprise Management
Energy Conservation Programs
Energy Generation Programs
Energy Assessments

17. Upcoming Opportunities
FY 2015 Major Construction Procurements

18. Upcoming Opportunities
FY 2016 Major Construction Procurements

19. Upcoming Opportunities
FY 2016 Major Construction Procurements
continued

20. Remaining Opportunities
FY 2015 Remaining Leasing Opportunities

21. Upcoming Opportunities
FY 2016 Leasing Opportunities

22. Issues Facing VA Lease Program authorizations and GSA approval
Denver Replacement Hospital and USACE
Aging infrastructure and a lack of funds to sustain/backlog of projects and funding
Facility Master Plans

23. Points of Contact National Region
Robert Capers, Acting Facilities Acquisition Director, (202)
AE & Construction Contracting Policy Director
Robert Capers, Director, (202)
Real Property Service
Jessica Kaplan, Director, (202)
Central Region
Katie Kuehn, Facilities Acquisition Director, (224)
Eastern Region
Janice Speth, Facilities Acquisition Director, (240)
Western Region
Euclides Barrera, Facilities Acquisition Director, (707)
IT Acquisition Strategy & Facilities Management
Luwanda Jones, Executive Director, (202)
National Energy Business Center
John Yallech, Jr., Supervisory Contract Specialist, (216)

24. Useful Websites Office of Construction & Facilities Management
Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU)
OSDBU VetBiz
Federal Business Opportunities
VA Forecast of Contracting Opportunities
2015 President’s Budget Request for VA

25. Questions ?

26. Eleni Reed Chief Green Officer, GSA PBS EO: Planning for Sustainability in the Next Decade

27. Transactional Data Proposed Rule
Published in Federal Register March 4
Contractors to report transactional data from orders and prices paid by ordering activities
FSS contract and GSA non-FSS contract orders (VA not covered)
Removes BOA monitoring requirement of PRC
However…
GSA maintains right to ask for updates on CSP disclosures and price reductions
IFF or CAF payments quarterly
Pilot first step

28. Transaction Data Action Items
Members- take the Transactional Data Reporting Survey open through March 27
Take the survey:
Responses used to estimate the information collection burden for contractors
CGP statement at public meeting on April 17 (GSA headquarters)
Send feedback on rule to Aubrey at (due to GSA May 4)

29. FSSI BMO
GSA released draft RFP for FSSI Buildings Maintenance and Operations (BMO)
Comments due April 17
Regional Phase 1
Multiple Award IDIQ
Industry Days: March 31 - April 2, 2015
Philadelphia, New York, Washington, DC
Deadline to register March 27

30. Upcoming Events 2015 Spring Conference – The Business of Government
Breakfast Forum: Indirect Contracting with the
Government
April 9, 7:30 am - 11:00 am
Reshaping Federal Contracting: A Conversation
with OFPP Administrator Anne Rung
April 22, 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
2015 Spring Conference – The Business of Government
April 28

31. Questions?